Ishavasyopanishad chanting bu Swami Viditatmananda Saraswatiji.

Mundakopanishad Chanting by Swamiji

Mandukya Upanishad Chanting by Swamiji Viditatmananda Saraswatiji

Kaivalya Upanishad Chanting by Swamiji Viditatmananda Saraswatiji

Kathopanishad Chanting by Swami Viditatmananda Saraswatiji

In this Sunday Morning Youth session, Pujya Swamiji addresses the doubts related to previous session on speaking truth, and in the latter half introduces the topic of objectivity and subjectivity.  With regards to speaking truth, one of the questions raised is how to master the skill of speaking truth without not hurting others.  Pujya Swamiji responds how first we have to have the value to not hurt others and keep our intentions clean and make our best attempts.  It is pointed out how our...

In this Sunday Morning Youth session, Pujya Swamiji talks about truth and non-violence as important values to inculcate in our life.  Pujya Swamiji points out that in life what is important is to travel in the right direction, and for that we need to make right choices. These values guide us to make the right choices and thus stay on track. Pujya Swamiji provides here the basis for understanding and interpreting what truth and non-violence is in a given situation.  The two aspects: Truth as...

In this Sunday Morning Youth session, Pujya Swamiji unfolds how our feeling of being separated from God is a notion. How the separation from God is like river feeling separated from the ocean. But if we investigate the essential nature of river, is it the banks, the flow or water? True nature is that which never changes. River when meets the ocean doesn’t remain as Ganga, Kaveri etc. The incidental changes but the essential doesn’t change. So also when you forget your identity you behave...

Questions on Mandukya Upanishad and from Gita Management Wisdom book: fulfilling one's own expectations, and contribution: contributing that which is valuable to me.

This Satsanga is in Gujarati. Pujya Swamiji in thus Satsanga clarifies what is death and moksha. More we understand the phenomenon of what death is and who dies, lesser the fear and better the ability to see the situation in its reality. In this Satsanga Pujya Swamiji clarifies many of these concepts and in the process unfolds yet another way of approaching life, understanding life.

In this Sunday Morning Youth session, Pujya Swamiji answers to some fundamental questions each of us have within. When did we get separated from God? Pujya Swamiji points out to pay attention of why this question arises. Because we feel separated from God, we feel we don’t see God, we don’t know where he is. This sense of separation is explained differently in different philosophies, but what is important is that we feel separated, why we feel so is not so important. The various Acharyas...

In this Sunday Morning Youth session, Pujya Swamiji speaks about truthfulness as a value in our life. The scriptures claim, ‘Truth alone prevails, wins’. This is what we have to discover in our life. The simple meaning of truth is taken here as speaking truth. But what does speaking truth involve is unfolded elaborately. Speaking truth: does it mean I have to speak all the time? No, but if you choose to speak, speak truth. Secondly speak in a pleasant way which doesn’t hurt others. Truth...

In this Sunday Morning Youth session, Pujya Swamiji talks about how practicing a value requires strength. We expect others to be kind, honest, truthful, but when it comes to us, it costs something, my image, respect, success, prestige, fear of punishment, fear of losing something precious to me. Whenever we don’t follow a value, inwardly it pinches us and leaves us with guilt of compromising the particular value. These guilt, the pinch cannot be measured in tangible terms and so we ignore,...

In this Sunday Morning Youth session, Pujya Swamiji brings us closer to the facts of life, of what we really want in life and how can we obtain that. How we are constantly observing and judging ourselves, and all problems in our life are because of failing myself, my disliking myself. And I can love myself only when I live upto my expectations. So while we are constantly trying to change the outside, what is important to us is inner comfort. Inner comfort makes me happy and inner discomfort...

In this Sunday Morning Youth session, Pujya Swamiji draws our attention to the secret of gaining freedom in life. How it is important to master the mind to develop an inner freedom, and one who hasn’t mastered the mind becomes a slave of the mind. When we become slave of the mind, then the mind makes me do things, we helplessly do things which we may regret later on! Happiness is where freedom is, while unhappiness is where there is dependence. So with every relation in our life we need to...

In this Sunday Morning Youth session, Pujya Swamiji elaborates further on the ongoing discussion of the art of developing a happy mind. How we have to change our existing equation of becoming happy from getting rid of or acquiring desired things. In this talk, Pujya Swamiji shows how this desire of acquiring or getting rid of things is not based on the reality of life because our likes and dislikes are not constant. If we observe carefully we will find our interactions are all based on our...

In this Sunday Morning Youth session, Pujya Swamiji unfolds the art of developing a happy mind. Pujya Swamiji explains how all of us are having a love affair with ourselves – with a happy self or pleased self. We have the capacity to enjoy anything, but we have to learn to make ourselves happy. When I feel I made somebody happy, comforted, with what I did, I feel happy, and so to the extent there is sharing in our mind, to that extent I am happy. On the contrary when I am self-centred, and...

In this Sunday Morning Youth session, Pujya Swamiji unfolds the secret and art of being happy.  Why do I want to do something or not do something?  To be happy!  When am I happy?  When I am comfortable with myself!  Being comfortable means being comfortable with my mind!  It is pointed out how all the activities in my life are centred upon the satisfaction of I.  We are constantly striving for a pleased self, for a happy self.  A self that we have visualized as an ideal self is what seems to...

In this Sunday Morning Youth session, Pujya Swamiji unfolds the importance of emotional growth, one of the integral elements for self-management.  Pujya Swamiji points out that the purpose of human life is to grow, and different people have different kind of objectives in life.  It is desirable to have some objective in life, something that inspires and motivates to do better.  It is emphasized that everyone has a unique place in the scheme of things and hence each one is important.  So...

In this Sunday Morning Youth session, Pujya Swamiji unfolds the importance of self management through understanding our desires and managing the desires. That we have ambitions in life indicates that we are not contented with ourselves. We keep on comparing ourselves with others which results in competition. In this segment Pujya Swamiji points out that the complexes we entertain have all arisen because of judging ourselves and comparing with others. Further the importance of managing our...

January 17 2021 Sunday Morning Youth Session: Satsanga with Pujya Swamiji This is a new Sunday Morning Satsanga series primarily focusing on youth.  These lecture and Satsanga series is in English.  In the first segment of this session, Pujya Swamiji answers the questions raised by the young seekers.  Workplace adaptation on how to keep mind stable and maintain interest in work when the workplace environment is not encouraging, how to be more open minded and acceptable towards the society...

January 10 2021 Sunday Morning Youth Session: Satsanga with Pujya Swamiji This is a new Sunday Morning Satsanga series with youth.  In these series Pujya Swamiji not only addresses the questions and concerns of today’s youth, but essentially molds their character by highlighting the emotional and spiritual aspect of the personality.  The everyday issues in the practical life are seen through the perspective of the perceived success and happiness versus the actual success and happiness. This...

Dec 27 2020 Sunday Morning Satsanga on Shreyas and Preyas This Sunday’s Satsanga is in English.  The week’s Satsanga is related to Kathopanisad: subtle aspects of shreyas and preyas in a seeker’s life. Pujya Swamiji sheds light on what does being like Nachiketa mean in today’s world. As Pujya Swamiji mentions in Kathopanisad, ‘Every moment can be a moment of joy if alertness is there and Shreyas is there’, so Shreyas is not a onetime thing and a seeker has to constantly apply it in life. ...

This Sunday’s Satsanga is in Gujarati.   The Satsanga is based on the seeker’s questions regarding Adhyatma Vidya Mandir’s publication, ‘Management Wisdom from Bhagavad Gītā’ by Pujya Swami Viditatmanandaji. Two dimensions of success are mentioned under the topic of ‘Success’ (Page 6).  With respect to these two dimensions of success: subjective and objective, what does each mean, which dimension is important between the two, and to what aspect?  In the same topic, further explaining the...